| | Man Who Shot Liberty Valance DVD
| Category | Recommended DVDs, Classic Movies, Westerns Videos, Essential Cinema, Social Issues, Rivalry, Law/Lawyers | | Starring | John Wayne, James Stewart, John Carradine, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Vera Miles, Andy Devine, Jeanette Nolan, Ken Murray, Dutton Peabody | | Director | John Ford | | Art Director | Hal Pereira, Eddie Imazu | | Composer | Alfred Newman, Cyril Mockridge | | Costume Designer | Edith Head | | Director of Photography | William Clothier | | Editor | Otho S. Lovering | | Featured | Woody Strode, John Qualen, Anna Lee, Denver Pyle, Charles Seel, O.Z. Whitehead
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Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re In John Ford's stark, melancholy swan song for the conventional frontier Western, aged Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns to the small town of Shinbone with his wife, Hallie (Vera Miles), for the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphan (John Wayne), where he recounts for reporters his relationship with the man. His arrival in the town years earlier as a newly minted lawyer had been welcomed with a vicious beating by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), a flamboyant thug hired by powerful business interests fearful of the lawyer's intentions to stump for statehood. Doniphan, a rancher and feared gunman, finds Stoddard unconscious, takes him into town, and continues to protect him, particularly after coming to realize that the woman he loves cares more for the lawyer. Despite Doniphan's warnings that the only law in the region comes at the end of a gun barrel, the stubborn lawyer insists on teaching the illiterate townspeople about the rule of law in a democratic society. When Stoddard is elected as the regional delegate to the territorial convention, Valance baits the politician, a notoriously inept gunman, into a showdown.
The film, which plays like a Western version of Freud's CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, reflects the aging director's ambivalence about many of the beliefs that had animated his earlier work. Shot on two soundstages because of a limited budget and Ford's poor health, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE blends a stripped-down look with an intentionally fractured, ambiguous narrative to stand as a haunting elegy for the fearless gunman, the endless wilderness, and the loss of freedom their vanishing betokens. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Reviews: "...Director John Ford's last masterpiece, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, features a killer cast..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...John Ford's valedictory to the Old West...with Wayne wringing a surprising amount of pathos out of his role..."
-- Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly "[O]ne of Ford's most moving films. It boasts three superb performances."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound "[O]ddly stirring and ahead of its time."-- Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly "[The film offers] a bittersweet look at the closing of the frontier by focusing on two strikingly different men who help one town choose law and order over the chaos of the open range."-- Keith Phipps, A.V. Club
This is the only Dutton Peabody video. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | List Price | $16.99 (You save $4.04) | | Studio | Paramount Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1962 | | All Time Sales Rank |  36255  | | CD Universe Part number | 7872074 | | Catalog number | 142344 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | May 19, 2009 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 123 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled; Paramount Centennial Collection |
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Movie Review  Wonderful
What can anyone say about this movie, classic wayne, classic stewart, classic western,. surely one of everybody's favourite movies, coverted well to DVD, can't believe anyone left who hasn't seen it. BUY IT and keep it in a safe place.
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A great movie
A great movie and very well done is the transfer. The DVD, audio and video are excellent, crisp and sharp.
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This review is for a different format.  It's one the Duke's early films, no one was hotter!
This was once again one of John Wayne's best, along side James Stewart and one of the best directers to do a western, John Ford, "this will easily go down as one of the best". And let's not forget about O'le Pompey, he did great too.
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An all-time classic western!!
One hears the word "classic" used every day to describe films, music, etc, and the word has been downgraded to mean almost anything. To a person of my age (50s) it rarely meets the description of anything produced in the movies or music these days (I did say rarely)!
However, this film is in the eternal western top twenty! Great performances from Lee Marvin, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles and the rest of the cast.
I think I was in love with Vera Miles when I first saw the film. An over-looked performance by Andy Devine playing the ever hungry, but cowardly sheriff is another surprise – for an actor that usually spent his time in 'B'-movies.
But back to the film, probably one of John Ford's greatest – a western with a difference – the opening scene, a senator travelling to a funeral sets the tone for a truly rivetting film – and just when you think the story has ended – it continues with another great twist! Buy this with confidence, but remember to keep the tissues handy (is it Kleenex in the USA?).
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This review is for a different format. Wayne, Stewart, Marvin=Winner!
Picture and sound are great, classic western, star cast at their best. Plan double popcorn, take the phone off the hook, and kick your feet up!
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Man Who Shot Liberty Valance DVD "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Behind the camera? John Ford, a director whose name is synonymous with "Westerns." Gathered in front of it? An ideal cast – James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin. Now presented on two discs, with all-new special features, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance rides into town as classic entry in the Paramount Centennial Collection. Director Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Marvin). Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid Shinbone of Valance, and he finds that he has an unlikely ally -- in the form of a rugged, local rancher (Wayne). The two men also share the same love interest (Miles). But when the final showdown becomes inevitable, one of the two will attempt to get the gunman … but the other one will wind up getting the gal.
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Dubbed, Subtitles - English, Spanish
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